Four Feisty Females
4-weeks (first 4) | This course is completed
The four women this course will discuss worked as social activists during the years between 1870 and 1920. Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president; Mother Jones was an iconic labor organizer for the United Mine Workers; Jane Addams established a pioneering settlement house and all but destroyed her career by opposing our entry into World War I; and Emma Goldman brought the message of anarchism and workers' rights to audiences all over America.
Sandra Opdycke
Sandra Opdycke Ph.D., has published books about the women’s suffrage movement, the fluepidemic of 1918, the WPA of the 1930s, Bellevue Hospital and Jane Addams, and has co-
authored several books on social policy. She worked for a number of years at Hudson River
Psychiatric Center, and later taught American History and Urban History at Bard, Vassar and
Marist Colleges. She now teaches frequently at the Marist Center for Lifetime Studies and the
Vassar Lifelong Learning Institute.